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CDATA
All text in an XML document will be parsed by the parser.
Only text inside a CDATA section will be ignored by the parser.
If you write a character like "<" inside an XML element, it will generate an error.
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To avoid this, you have to replace the "<" character.
There are 5 predefined entity references in XML:
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| < |
< |
less than |
| > |
> |
greater than |
| & |
& |
ampersand |
| ' |
' |
apostrophe |
| " |
" |
quotation mark | |
CDATA
Everything inside a CDATA section is ignored by the parser.
If your text contains a lot of "<" or "&" characters - as program code often does - the XML element can be defined as a CDATA section.
A CDATA section starts with "":
In the example above, everything inside the CDATA section is ignored by the parser.
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